PE>> The "# Origin"'s should not be allowed, they should have to use
PE>> a ^AINVORIGIN or similar.  To allow # Origin makes the near-
PE>> impossible task of separating out FTN kludge lines from user-
PE>> text even more impossible.

ml>> you are too concerned with the programing and behind the scenes
ml>> stuff, paul... the ' # Origin: ' stuff was done this way so that
ml>> moderators could see and reply to gated messages that come from
ml>> another FTN network.

 PE> The "From" field and INTL line are also used by people to reply to
 PE> messages.  Doesn't mean you have to mess up the message-text bit of
 PE> the message to do so.  That's what we write programs for.

you forget that not all moderators are sysops... without access to a kludge
key to turn them on or off while reading the messages, they mean nothing at
all... with the modified origin lines, anyone can see that the message was
gated from another FTN network...

)\/(ark